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The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week

A seaside town is devastated when a small fishing boat, the Rose of Nevada, disappears at sea. Thirty years later, the boat reappears in the harbour and sets off a moving story, says Bethan Ackerley

Discovering he is getting old before his time, David Cox tries to lower his biological age by changing his diet in a helpful new book, The Age Code, says Graham Lawton

Feedback, always on the hunt for absurd units of measurement, is delighted by recent attempts to convey the 406,771 kilometres that the Artemis II crew travelled from Earth

The rise of a new generation of radiotherapies means we will soon need much greater quantities of radioactive atoms. That's why companies are scrambling to refine them from all manner of radioactive waste

A robot built by Sony AI is rapidly learning how to beat the world's very best table tennis players

Exercise has been touted as a tool for managing and treating long covid, but much of the evidence has neglected one of its most debilitating symptoms: post-exertional malaise

The new rule, coming into force in May, bolsters risk management and tightens requirements for chemical production, storage, use and transport

Simon Singh's exploration of mathematical proof – in particular Pierre de Fermat's last theorem – remains an absolute treasure, almost three decades after it was first published

Genetically diverse groups arrived in three waves, some potentially carrying genes acquired from long-ago Australasian ancestors

Emissions of certain ozone-depleting chemicals could delay the ozone layer’s recovery by six to 11 years

A lipid synthesized on skin may promote brain development—and a swabbing with vaginal fluid could provide it to C-section babies, study suggests

A final-stage trial has started of an mRNA vaccine against the bird flu strain infecting many animals – and occasionally people – worldwide